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Everywhere we hear talk of decline, of a world that was better once, maybe fifty years ago, maybe centuries ago, but certainly before modernity drew us along its dubious path. While some lament the slide of Western culture into relativism and nihilism and others celebrate the trend as a liberating sort of progress, Charles Taylor calls on us to face the moral and political crises of our time, and to make the most of modernity’s challenges.

Of the three dominant ideologies of the 20th century - fascism, communism, and liberalism - only the last remains. This has created a peculiar situation in which liberalism's proponents tend to forget that it is an ideology and not the natural end-state of human political evolution. As Patrick Deneen argues in this provocative book, liberalism is built on a foundation of contradictions.

Există două adagii existențialiste care mi se par foarte potrivite în contextul de față. Unul spune că nu există libertate, ci doar eliberare (o variantă ar putea fi: nu există libertate decât în eliberare). Celălalt afirmă că libertatea este o eternă perspectivă. Cred că cele două precizări nu se exclud, ci se completează. Prin prisma celei de-a doua, libertatea e văzută ca acea aspirație perpetuă care ne impulsionează mereu căutările, sinonimă cu valoarea de viitor pur, de viitor proiectat fără încetare.

"'Vinyl' Looks (and Listens) for Authenticity in Its Tunes" is from the Arts section of The New York Times. It was written by Joe Coscarelli and narrated by Barbara Benjamin-Creel.